Blog Article

Video celebrating World AIDS Day

Queer Lisboa
and website PREP.PT challenged Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gonçalves
Mendes to direct a video featuring renowned north-American porn actor Colby
Keller, to be released on the World AIDS Day, celebrated on December the 1st.

PrEP stands
for Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis, and it is a new strategy for preventing HIV
infection (with a success rate of over 99% in cases registered) by taking a
single pill (tenofovir + emtricitabine).

Produced by Jumpcut, the video
aims to raise awareness in the communities most vulnerable to HIV infection,
namely men who have sex with men, and to alert Health agents for the urgent
need to implement and spread the word on this prevention strategy now available
in Portugal, according to the DGS – Direção Geral de Saúde [Portuguese
Health Authority] norm, published on this past 28th November, following what has
already happened in several other European countries.